As you will see in the Puritan Hard Drive videos above, the new SWRB Puritan Hard Drive is "a true technological revolution in Christian (Puritan, Reformation, Presbyterian, Reformed Baptist and Covenanter) studies," for which we give the Lord all the thanks and glory! More videos are forthcoming, as there are many powerful features and benefits on the Puritan Hard Drive to showcase.

When I was full-time at seminary, we had a superb theological library. But for access to the Puritan classics a special trip was necessary to visit the Puritan collection at Regent College on the UBC campus. If I had had this Puritan Hard Drive, no such trips would have been needed.

Never before have ordinary pastors, teachers and students had access to such a wealth of rare sermons, classic theology and commentaries.

Most commercial theological software packages allow you to search 18th - 20th century public domain books or charge premium prices for materials under current copyright. But for spiritual richness and depth of insight, who can match the Reformation and Post-Reformation Puritan classics? The ones available in PDF form scattered around the Internet would take hundreds of hours to locate and download. And, for ease and speed of search, the Puritan Hard Drive is frankly ingenious.

For pennies per resource, you even provide a collection of outstanding MP3s and a handy portable hard-drive with ample available space.

I was just on the island of Iona where Columba established a missionary outpost sending evangelists all over Britain. Searching the hard drive for "Columba" added much to my understanding of this great leader through the eyes of Spurgeon and many others.

Thank you so much... for going to the trouble to make this available.

I am greatly improved by it and I anticipate the pace of worldwide reformation to be improved as well.

On my way across the ocean to study the reformation with Doug Phillips, I did not have a suitcase of books as I usually do. I was lamenting that fact at the airline ticket counter and my daughter Claudia said to me, "Papa, close your eyes and step into the new world." Well, let me confess: on my computer I have approximately 13,000 puritan and reformed books which I have acquired through my son downloading ebooks and a gigantic collection put together by Reg Barrow from Still Waters Revival Books. I am now like Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia who, in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.

It is simple to set up and there is a tremendous amount of material available that will last me for years as I go through it all.

The search tools are, by themselves, well worth the price of the Puritan Hard Drive. It makes finding authors, topics and documents incredibly easy and fast. (The speed itself is amazing!) I also find the ability to copy from any of the (searchable - ed.) PDFs and paste into whatever .doc I happen to have open to be extremely useful.

I'm also glad to see that there are audio sermons/teachings (MP3s - ed.), as well as WMVs (videos - ed) from a variety of speakers and preachers as this provides a well-rounded approach to my own theology.

I've downloaded the entire drive to one of my computers that can handle it, and have it hooked up to a laptop.

The Puritan Hard Drive is a tremendous asset to my library and a huge time-saver for my own learning, preaching, teaching and counseling.

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"I am overwhelmed...
the CD series look priceless, and you have done a great service for the kingdom
through this ministry."

- Dr. R.C. Sproul (Ligonier Ministries)

The comment above, by Dr. R.C. Sproul, was related to SWRB's previous two Puritan and Reformation Bookshelf CD sets, of 62 total CDs. The Puritan Hard Drive (PHD) has replaced these CD sets as a far superior study tool. In fact, there really is no comparison, as the Puritan Hard Drive is many orders of magnitude better than our previous (now discontinued) CD sets — kind of like a $1,000,000.00, 12-cylinder, Enzo Ferrari (F60) super car is better than a horse and buggy as a mode of transportation.

As you are reading this and other comments on our discontinued CD sets, you may want to keep in mind that the Puritan Hard Drive contains over 10,500 more Puritan and Reformation books, MP3s and videos, than our previous 62 CDs. This is an increase in Reformation resources of well over 500%!

On top of that, thousands more free and deeply discounted digital Puritan and Reformation books, MP3s and videos will be available for quick and easy download, many at just $0.99 each (or less), from SWRB after we unveil our new state-of-the-art e-commerce Web site in the near future! These digital downloads will seamlessly integrate with the Puritan Hard Drive, as we provide updates to the KnowledgeBase and embedded database on the PHD. These new digital downloads which you will be able to add to the Puritan HD, whether they be books (PDFs), audio (MP3s) or video (WMVs/MP4s), will be published by us (Still Waters Revival Books) and other participating Puritan, Reformed, Creationist and home school publishers.

A large-scale (scalable), updatable (for when you choose to add new resources to your digital collection of Reformed books, MP3s and videos on the Puritan Hard Drive), and extensive, embedded database is also included on the Puritan Hard Drive and works in conjunction with the spectacular SWRB KnowledgeBase study software. This database contains over 71,000 book, MP3 and video categories, and over 4.5 million (4,500,000) records related to SWRB's Resource Category Signatures (which are proprietary and unique to the Puritan Hard Drive) and which will significantly aid you in your study of the Bible.

Furthermore, as another added bonus, most of the books on the new Puritan Hard Drive have been OCRed, using the best in Optical Character Recognition software available, and are not only searchable, but you may now copy and paste from them too (unlike our previous CD sets which for the most part contained unsearchable images of book pages from which you could not copy and paste)!

Moreover, because we have OCRed the text on most of the books on the Puritan Hard Drive, we have also been able to add embedded and appended indices to all the OCRed books — and the embedded database contains over 10 million (10,000,000) page references for words in the appended indices. In addition, some of the appended indices, for individual books, are over 100 pages long. You can imagine how much this will aid you in your study of God's Word!

Most importantly, the over 12,500 contemporary and classic Puritan and Reformed resources (being many of the best and rarest from throughout Reformation history, with most of books on the PHD now searchable, many for the first time in history!), combine with the world-class search and research software and database on the Puritan Hard Drive, to place in your hands the most useful Christian study and research tool ever available — may the Lord Jesus Christ get all the glory!

This is a marriage made in heaven, thanks be to the Lord — a true technological revolution in Puritan and Reformation studies! Or, in short, in the Puritan Hard Drive, you now have a search and research study tool available to more rapidly and more deeply search the valuable, delightful and greatest of historic Reformation treasures (whether in book, MP3 of video formats) which the Lord has given His church.

With the Puritan Hard Drive you will be able to use your searches and studies, with the greatest efficiency now possible, to come to more fully know the "the unsearchable riches of Christ" (Ephesians 3:8) — at levels never before imagined!

We hope you will take advantage of all the spiritual benefits that are available (by God's grace) through the Puritan Hare Drive, so that you may be a greater eternal blessing to your family, church, friends and everyone else you come into contact with — and that through the accelerated studies and growth the Puritan Hard Drive makes possible (again, only by God's grace), your life may be a shining, even refulgent, testimony to the beauty, grace, love and mercy of our great and majestic God and Savior, and that in this our Lord may get all the glory!

Another comment on SWRB's two discontinued Reformation and Puritan Bookshelf CD sets (of 62 total CDs) follows. These CD sets were greatly inferior, in every way, to the new SWRB Puritan Hard Drive, and the Puritan Hard Drive even costs less (and gets you discounts on rare and new digital downloads in the future)!

"I have been
systematically working through reading the Puritan and Reformed CDs I
purchased... I must say, there is nothing like them available anywhere. It is
the most amazing collection of works I know of in one package to date... You
have done an immeasurable service for the Kingdom of Christ in making these CDs
available, and every pastor and theologian should own them without question
(they would be foolhardy to pass them by)."

- Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, A Puritan's Mind Ministries)

Another comment on SWRB's two discontinued Reformation and Puritan Bookshelf CD sets (of 62 total CDs) follows. These CD sets were greatly inferior, in every way, to the new SWRB Puritan Hard Drive, and the Puritan Hard Drive even costs less (and gets you discounts on new and rare digital downloads in the future)!

"Still Waters
Revival Books... have released an incredible array of... compact disks which
contain over 2,000 titles (remember there are over 12,500 resources on SWRB's
new Puritan Hard Drive Collection - ed.) of some of the best
Reformation and Calvinistic books ever written. It is by far the best and widest collection of Reformed literature ever assembled."

Another comment on SWRB's two discontinued Reformation and Puritan Bookshelf CD sets (of 62 total CDs) follows. These CD sets were greatly inferior, in every way, to the new SWRB Puritan Hard Drive, and the Puritan Hard Drive even costs less (and gets you discounts on new and rare digital downloads in the future)!

"Your CD's of
Reformation and Puritan authors are a great boon to studies in the
Reformed-Puritan experiential tradition. Receive our hearty thanks for your
invaluable work in making so many rare gems accessible to thousands."

THE
MOST EXTENSIVE AND POWERFUL PURITAN AND REFORMATION SEARCH AND RESEARCH CHRISTIAN STUDY TOOL EVER PRODUCED!

Over 12,500 Classic and Contemporary Puritan and Reformation
Resources On SWRB's New, Portable, USB Puritan Hard Drive (SWRB-PHD) - Now
Including An Embedded Database and SWRB's New, Custom, Proprietary
Search/Interface Knowledgebase Program (With Over 70,000 Category Cross
References, Over 4.5 Million Records Related To Resource Category Signatures and Over 10 Million Page References In The Indices We've Appended To All OCRed Books), For Easy, Virtually Effortless, Access To All 12,500+ Puritan And
Reformation Resources (Books, MP3s and Videos) and the Power to Search, Build,
Print and Even Save An Unlimited Number of Study Lists Related to Whatever Authors,
Topics and Titles You Most Need To Know and Understand!

Four sample screenshots from the powerful, custom SWRB KnowlegeBase program that comes with the Puritan Hard Drive are show below.

SWRB's PURITAN HARD DRIVE is the most extensive and robust Reformation study tool ever created — thanks be to the Lord! It presently contains over one million dollars worth of classic and contemporary Puritan and Reformation books (PDFs), MP3s and videos, a comprehensive custom search/interface program (SWRB KnowledgeBase, see screenshots below), and a powerful embedded database. The extensive world-class KnowledgeBase software and database are also fully upgradeable (via free Web downloads we will provide as new features are released), so the PURITAN HARD DRIVE can grow with you as you grow in the Lord. Moreover, all future SWRB publications (PDF books, MP3s and videos), as well as resources from other participating publishers, may also be downloaded free, or at a nominal cost (most for just 99 cents each), as they become available in the future. These low cost digital downloads will be completely integrated with the KnowledgeBase and database on the PURITAN HARD DRIVE and will even include the rarest of Reformation resources, which can cost thousands of dollars each on the antiquarian book market (e.g., just one eight volume set presently on the Puritan Hard Drive cost $US28,000.00 to obtain for scanning). Additionally, as an added bonus, most books on the Puritan Hard Drive are either already in text format or have been ORCed using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition software. We have even embedded indexing in the OCRed books (PDFs) so that they are not only searchable, but can be searched a lighting fast speeds (see below for more details). You may also cut and paste from these books! We have also appended extensive indices to all of the searchable books to further aid you in you studies. In short, the PURITAN HARD DRIVE can greatly increase your knowledge of the Lord and His truth (by God's grace) in much less time than any other study method or tool of which we are aware. Furthermore, in the 25 years we have been building the PURITAN HARD DRIVE, only the very best resources were selected for inclusion, which means you will have virtually instant access to the very best (and most sanctified) Christian minds in history on virtually every topic you can imagine. Never before has a Christian study tool this powerful ever existed, all thanks and glory be to the Lord! Please take full advantage of the best Christian (Puritan and Reformed) study resources and cutting edge educational technology ever available, at the lowest price possible, by purchasing the PURITAN HARD DRIVE today (or before the prepublication sale ends). You, your family and your church will be very thankful (even potentially eternally grateful) you did!

We have even more phenomenal news for you!

Most of books on the Puritan Hard Drive will now be searchable!

The
world-class software architect who is heading up the development of the
custom KnowledgeBase software, embedded database, and file preparation
for the Puritan Hard Drive (PHD) has once again (by God's grace)
implemented his God-given genius in these things to add another
extraordinary feature to the Puritan Hard Drive.

We
recently announced that we have been OCRing all books (in more modern
font styles) on the PHD. Not only have the OCR accuracy results been
turning out much better than expected, but laying the OCRed text behind
the images of the book pages has led to more incredible features which
will greatly benefit everyone who uses the PHD.

Some of
the search, cut and paste, indexing, etc., advantages of having the
OCRed text available have already been mentioned in previous emails
(email us at swrb@swrb.com to join our email list), so today I would like to focus on what may
very well be one of the foremost feature enhancements that has resulted
from OCRing the majority of the rare Reformation, Puritan and
Covenanter books that are on the PHD (and remember you may download all
the no cost PDF listings related to the massive 12,500+ resources on
the PHD above).

Find lists of hundreds of search results in seconds (or less)!

As
you probably know, Adobe's PDF reading programs have some very
powerful search features. However, what you may not know (I didn't know
this myself), is that it is possible to embed text indices into PDF files.

Why is this important? The primary advantage of embedding text indices into PDF files can be seen in how fast searches of PDF documents take place. I was recently testing OCRed/indexed PDF books that I received from our
Director of Software Development and I am still shaking my head in
shock at how useful it is to have virtually instant access to all the
text in the books on the PHD that contain embedded indices (not to
mention that for a number of these books this will be the first time in
history that the text in these books is searchable).

Now
the OCRed books on the PHD will all have embedded text indices which
allows then to be searched at lighting fast speeds -- even for searches
that bring up hundreds of results! What's more, even beyond the blinding search speeds that are now
available, all these results can be viewed in context when you use the
"Full Reader Search" in Adobe readers.

How important this is for serious Christian study can not be overstated!

Now,
when you are using the PHD, you can combine all the "big picture"
features we have been revealing in past emails, to quickly find, list,
amend, manipulate, save, print, etc., large or small resource lists
from among the 12,500+ Reformation resources on the PHD (even adding
your own personal notes) -- and then
take your studies to the next level by getting into the most minute
details of the text for every OCRed book on the PHD and in your
personal search results lists.

I
was literally astonished at how quickly I was able to complete complex
research projects, when I was testing our upgraded PDF files, because
almost as soon as my finger came off the mouse, after hitting the
"Search" button in Adobe Readers' "Full Reader Search," the search
term(s) I was looking for were already listed in content -- even when
there were hundreds of search results.Thus,
not only are many of the rare Reformation and Puritan books on the PHD
searchable for the first time in history, they are searchable at
blistering fast speeds!

The embedded indices in our OCREd
books on the PHD have now eliminated a great deal of the common time
barriers that previously attend the information gathering process of
studying. Every instance of OCRed
words are now literally at you fingertips in a large number of the best
Puritan and Reformed books ever written!

An example of the increased search speed and how much time this will save you.

Here
is one example of how much computer waiting time you can save because
of the embedded indices in the OCRed books (in PDF) on the PHD. If you were to average five "Full Reader Searches" (this is the
advanced search you can use when you click the little arrow next to the
"Find" box in Adobe readers and you choose "Open Full Reader Search")
per day, over a 365 days, with the equivalent processing power I was
using (4 X 2.5 GHz PPC G5 Mac with 4.5GB of RAM), you
would save over one full 24 hour day of computer waiting time -- and
some of us will be doing much more than five "Full Reader Searches" per
day (on average).

And it is not just the total time
saved, but as everyone who has graduated (over the years) to faster and
more powerful computers knows, the increased speeds tend to change the
way you use your machine -- allowing you to explore and learn more and
more because it takes so much less time for various functions, this
leading in turn to the doing of many things that you may not have even
attempted on slower, less powerful, machines. This is exactly the
advantage that embedding indices into the OCRed files provides you --
especially the ability to almost instantly pull large amounts of search
results (in the blink of an eye)!

You
may now test the speed of a new OCRed/indexed PDF for yourself, on your
own computer, as well as see the extensive index we have appended to
this complimentary sample book, which we are giving to you free of
charge!

Just go to http://www.puritandownloads.com/ and download the no cost, complimentary copy of the SWRB PDF of William Cunningham's Historical Theology (volume two).

The
search of the OCRed/indexed PDF file of Cunningham's complete book (of
over 600 pages) took about two seconds and brought up 525 results.
One
"Full Reader Search" that yielded the stunning results noted above was
for the word "Calvin," with none of the boxes checked in the selection
below where you enter your search term. The search of the OCRed/indexed PDF file of Cunningham's complete book took about two seconds and brought up 525 results. The exact same test on the exact same OCRed book, but without the
embedded index took 51 seconds. Thus, this one search, with the
embedded index in the PDF took about 49 seconds less than the same
search without the embedded Index in the PDF. If you do the math for
the scenario given two paragraphs above, you will see why you would save over one full 24 hour day of computer waiting time over a year because of the added embedded index (assuming similar searches on similar machines).

You
should also make sure you have a recent version of Adobe Reader or Pro,
as some of the older versions will not take full advantage of the
embedded index, for super fast searches. You may go to http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ and click on "Download Adobe Reader" for the latest no cost version of Adobe's PDF Reader.

The graphic below illustrates what the search results for this "Calvin" test looked like.

In
the Adobe Reader results window, like the one below, you can also
"mouse over" any individual result to see what page the result is on,
or, even better, single click any individual result to instantly jump to that result. The result you jump to will also be highlighted as in the second graphic below.

The
graphic below illustrates how search terms are highlighted, in the PDFs
on the Puritan Hard Drive, when they are found through your searches.

More bonuses related to adding text via OCRing.

Another
nice little bonus of having the OCRed text available is that the same
search term highlighting shown above occurs whatever type of search you
are running, making it very easy to quickly and easily spot your search result on the page.

One more exceedingly useful feature that also comes into play because we are OCRing many of the books on the PHD is the "Read Out Loud" function (which is under the "View" among the top menu items -- and also available directly through some operating systems). You will now be able to listen to all the OCRed books on the PHD through Adobe's no cost Reader and/or the paid Pro version.

I
(Dr. Reg Barrow) often use cordless headphones (or other portable
devices) to listen to sermon and audio book MP3s while I eat and at
other appropriate times during the day -- which is one of the reasons
I've been able to listen to somewhere between 20,000 to 30,000 audio
sermons/lectures/books since the Lord saved me over 30 years ago (went
through a lot of cassettes in the "old days" but now everything is so
much easier with MP3s and the like). I find this to be an excellent way
to "redeem the time" (Ephesians 5:16) and would encourage everyone to
implement a regular listening plan which takes advantage of the best
technologies of the day (iTunes, iPhone, Zune, etc.) if cordless
headphones are not a viable option in your situation.

The
blessings that come from such regular communion with the Lord, through
this means of grace (i.e., the hearing of the preached or written
Word), are incalculable. Having this massive new library of freshly OCRed versions of the best editions of the best Puritan books now available for audio,
on the PHD, is just one more reason that I am eagerly awaiting (to
totally understate the case) the completion of the PHD myself, as there
are hundreds of books on the PHD I'd like to listen to as it has been
probably 20-25 years since I first read some of these Reformation
classics -- and the books on the PHD are certainly worth going through
multiple times.

Also, remember that we have placed over 4,080
MP3 audio sermons/lectures/books at http://www.sermonaudio.com/swrb
(and 96 videos, see http://www.sermonaudio.com/go/7018 ), which you may
obtain at no charge, to get your daily personal listening program up
and running quickly -- and to keep it going indefinitely.

Moreover, the PHD contains over 6,000 additional MP3s (some of the best stuff!) that are not available on our sermonaudio site. Furthermore,
all the audio on the PHD is fully integrated with the powerful, custom
search/access KnowledgeBase program, which gives you even more control
over what you find on the PHD to listen to, what type of lists you
build, save and/or print, etc.

Your part in the growing
worldwide Reformation of our day and your ongoing generational
influence for the glory of God -- from the comfort of your own home,
using your own PC or Mac.

Request
our recent email entitled "Major (Amazing) Puritan HD Announcement,
More New PHD Screenshots, 6 More New No Cost MP3s, etc." if you would
like us to send you a copy of this email just email your request to swrb@swrb.com.

The
Puritan Hard Drive now provides you with the perfect combination of
custom, propriety software tools, with numerous powerful study
features, which (to my knowledge) are not available in any other
Christian software on the market today.

This
potent combination of "big picture" and "details" tools on the PHD will
allow you to find more truth in less time -- while, at the same time,
providing you with over 12,500 of the very best of classic and
contemporary Puritan and Reformation resources ever gathered into one
offering!

And because
the Purtian Hard Drive is fully expandable, this unrivalled collection
can grow with you for the rest of your life -- as we plan, Lord
willing, to be offering you many more new, free and low priced, digital
resources in the future. These new digital books, MP3s and
videos will be published by SWRB as well as by any other modern-day
Reformed, Creationist and homeschooling publishers who want to work
with us to incorporate their books, MP3s and videos into the PHD/SWRB
schemata.

Even more ways in which OCRing the books, to make the text searchable on the PHD , allows for additional features in the powerful, custom, Puritan Hard Drive search/access/analyze (SWRB KnowledgeBase) program.

The
Lord has once again been very good to us concerning the amazing
developments concerning the Puritan Hard Drive (PHD) which I will share
with you below. The
PHD is now many orders of magnitude better than the 62 CDs we
previously published -- so much so that I feel safe in comparing the 62
CDs to a tricycle and the Puritan HD to a Ferrari.Both will get you where you want to go, but that is about where the comparison ends.Major New Puritan Hard Drive Announcements

As noted in previous emails, we are presently working on about 35 instructional videos to include with the PHD (to join our double opt-in email list plase email us at swrb@swrb.com).
However, because we noticed (some time ago) that this was going to take
longer than originally expected, we purchased more computer equipment
and began running a top Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program
over the image-based books on the PHD. Because this can be done almost
entirely programmatically (while we are working on the videos), as we
are applying the OCR process to digital files already produced (which
have already been scanned), it should not delay the release of the PHD
more than a day or two, but will provide you with a number of very
important, major, and powerful study advantages!

Moreover,
because the OCRed (and searchable) text is being laid behind the images
of the book pages, you get the best of both worlds -- as you will still
be able to see the actual book as it originally appeared (as in teh
graphic above) and at the same time have all the advantages of a text-based file.

This
means, often for the first time in history, you may now run computer
searches on the many rare Puritan and Reformed books on the PHD which
will be OCRed.

This exponentially increases the usefulness of all these files!

Moreover, it also means that you may now cut and paste from all OCRed books.

However,
we won't have time to proof the OCRed content, so the indices, and what
you are able to cut and paste, will only be accurate to the level that
the OCR program produces. Nevertheless, we have seen OCR accuracy rates
as high as 99.67% and the more modern the font style, the better the
results. This means most of what you will get will be accurate -- and
this opens a fantastic new door for the study of these rare and
influential tomes! I've been
thoroughly amazed at what I've already been able to find as I've been
test searching through various files that are already completed -- and
how much this expedites the study of the all the topics I've been
checking.

You Spoke, We Listened

We also know that adding the text behind the images, and therefore making the PDF book files searchable,
is the most requested improvement we have been asked to complete on the
large body of books we have published digitally -- and we are very
thankful to the Lord that He has ordered everything surrounding the PHD
so that we are now able to fulfill these requests to a great degree.
And to whatever degree any work remains to be done (in this regard)
after we ship the PHD, it may be helpful to remember that virtually everything
on the PHD (including the custom KnowledgeBase program, the embedded
database, all the resource files, etc.) has been designed so that they
can be easily upgraded in the future.This
means that as we are able to proof read and otherwise upgrade these
files in the future, we will be able to provide them to you via Web
downloads to install the upgrades on the PHD. We will also be
able to provide, as they are completed in the future, any files we
don't get OCRed by the time the instructional videos are completed and
we begin shipping the PHD shortly.

Of course, all the books on
the PHD which are already in text format do not need to be OCRed and
will also benefit from the additional indexing features I will describe
below -- as there are even more benefits to having the searchable text
available for many of the books on the PHD.

Overview of Additional OCR Benefits

Below
is a short overview and four screenshots related to some of the
additional benefits that will be included on the PHD as a result of
having so much book material in searchable (text) format.

First, because we will now have the text for all the books that are OCRed, we are also running a very fast indexing program over the text to produce indices for every book that is OCRed.In
a number of cases this will be the first time indices will be available
for some of the most important Puritan and Reformed writings that have
ever been available!

Moreover,
because of the power of the indexing technology we are using, the SWRB
produced indices will often contain many more references than most
indices you would find in books that may already have indices (from the
original publisher).

The
new SWRB generated indices also have the advantage of referring to the
page in the PDF, rather than the actual page in the book, which will
make it much easier for you to speedily access any indexed word or
phrase in the book (and you will still be able to see the
original book page number when you arrive at your destination -- if you
need that reference for any purpose).

More Scintillating, Even "Jaw-Dropping," Bonuses Added to the PHD

What's
more, we added additional scintillating, even "jaw-dropping," bonuses
to the PHD, as a result of having most of the books on the PHD OCRed
-- which I will outline below!

Because having searchable and
copy/cut/pastable text available to you (with additional and
complimentary indexing search features) will be so valuable to your
studies, and because our primary software engineer is a world class
software developer who can do remarkable things in very little time, we have already added some great new features to the SWRB KnowledgeBase program on the PHD -- related to the many new indices that will be available.

New PHD Screenshots Illustrating New Functions, Features and Bonuses

First,
as the screenshot below illustrates, you will be able to search for
indexed words or phrases using a built-in "help screen" that will
present all indexed words or phrases related to your search term.

The
most amazing thing about this screen/function is that once you click on
an indexed word or phrase, you will be presented with a Search Results
screen that will show you every book on the PHD that contains the
indexed word or phrase you choose!

This will be
phenomenally helpful for getting right to the most specific of indexed
words or phrases in every text-based book (which will now be most of
the books on the PHD), across the complete Puritan Hard Drive.

Pastors
will be able to quickly research whole sermons (or even series of
sermons) using this feature, from many of the best Christian books ever
published.

Seminary
students may use this feature to almost instantly locate all the best
Puritan and Reformation source material for papers and other course
requirements.

Fathers and mothers can learn about all the most scriptural methods for raising godly children with just a few mouse clicks.

And the uses go on and on for just this single, unprecedented, new feature on the PHD!

Second,
in the Resource Detail window on the PHD, you will have direct access
to the index (for any indexed book) directly through a lower tab panel,
called Keyword/Phrases, on this screen.

The
scrollable list, in this tab, will provide you with all indexed words
or phrases for the selected book, how many times the word or phrase
shows up in the OCRed text, and the first few results of page
references which fit in this screen (to see additional results
you may easily open the resource and consult the complete index we will
have added to the back of the book).

This bonus feature should
be very valuable for study purposes in a number of ways, not the least
of which will allow you to quickly access how much a given book deals
with a specific subject based on how many times a word or phrase
appears in the book..

Third,
you will have all the same direct access to all this useful index
information through the Keyword tab on all Search Results screens.

Fourth,
if a resource (like MP3s [audio], WMVs [video], or a book) does not
contain an SWRB generated index, you will be able to tell immediately
as there will be no words or phrases listed when you are viewing the
Keyword tab in a Search Results screen.

There are also some small indexing caveats I should mention.

First,
the index program, though eminently useful and blazingly fast, picks up
even partial matches -- which means that some of the references in the
indices may not be exactly what you are expecting. This usually won't
be a problem, as in a case of words like "sin" and "sinful" being
indexed together, but I thought you would like to know exactly what you
are getting in this feature, in case you run into the occasional
anomaly. On the other hand, sometimes
this may even be an advantage for serendipitous (or better,
providential) advances in sanctification, as you are led to words which
also form part of other words, which you may not have otherwise been
looking for, which ultimately end up aiding you in your studies of God
and His Word, and helping you to press forward in your growth in grace.

Second,
the indices will only be as good as the OCRed generated text and
therefore, on occasion (among the books in more modern type), may not
include a word that is actually in the text -- and this drawback will
be even more evident once we start OCRing the books in the older font
styles (the change to more modern font types seems to me to have taken
place in the early eighteen hundreds, though I'd be very interested to
hear from anyone who knows the exact time when the typography changed
to more modern type styles for books written in English). However, from
what we have seen so far, we believe that we will be able to accurately
provide the great majority of the text in searchable format (behind the
images) for all books which were published using more modern fonts -- having already seen accuracy results as high as 99.67% in sections of the OCRed text we have sampled.Even
when accuracy rates have been lower than 99% they have still been very
high -- and we believe that it is much preferable to have most of the
text accurate and searchable (and all of it in the OCRed books
available for copying, cutting and pasting), rather than not having any
searchable text available at all (for the image-based PDFs on the PHD).

Third,
to make sure the indices include every instance of a correctly OCRed
phrase or word, from the master index word list, the indices that will
be appended to the books will be in all lower case letters. This
certainly does not mean, even in the slightest, a disrespect or
dishonor to our Lord when His name appears this way in the indices (as
nothing could be further from our thoughts) -- it simply allows for
greater indexing accuracy.

Puritan HD OCRing Plan (Present and Future Bonuses)

We
have planned to OCR all the books on the PHD which are in more modern
font styles, first, and we already have many of them completed, as we
began some time ago. OCRing these types of books first makes sense, as
they can be OCRed with the greatest accuracy. We also hope to
eventually get to the older font style books (which are a minority of
the titles), likely after the PHD has shipped. But, even among the
smaller number of older books (where the OCR accuracy is much lower),
which are not likely to get OCRed before we begin shipping the PHD, you may still OCR these files yourself using the OCR feature in Acrobat Pro or other OCR programs.

Moreover,
when, Lord willing, we do get to OCRing these older titles (with the
oldest typography), we can still make them available to you (along with
the updated database, so all the features in the screenshots above
include these books as they become available) via download to add to
your Puritan HD -- for
as previously noted just about everything related to the Puritan HD has
been constructed with the utmost flexibility in mind, including the
ability to update and upgrade the KnowledgeBase program, the embedded
database, the PDF (book), MP3 and video files (which means you will be
able to download new resources as the become available in the future,
and add them to you Puritan Hard Drive, with all the functionality
related to all the features upgraded and intact at the same time!).

Additionally,
please keep in mind that even some of the older books, originally
published prior to the end of the seventeenth century, have already
been retype set and therefore can be accurately OCRed (for the most
part) and will be available with searchable text (and all the other
features related to searchable text) on the Puritan HD when it first
ships.

More select comments on SWRB's two discontinued Reformation and Puritan Bookshelf CD sets (of 62 total CDs) follow. These CD sets are greatly inferior, in every way, to the new SWRB Puritan Hard Drive, and the Puritan Hard Drive even costs less (and gets you discounts on new and rare digital downloads in the future)!

"I have
now had several months to peruse the contents of the (SWRB) CD sets, and the
experience has been a feast for the soul. They have been invaluable to me in
sermon preparation and in improving personal and familial piety."

- Dr. Steven Dilday

"Thank you so very
much for the CDs. I am amazed at the quality and quantity of the literature...
I cannot imagine any other single thing being done by any man or group of men
in the earth today that is of such extensive, present, and enduring value as
this CD work is."

- Dr. B, Colorado, USA

"You all are doing a
wonderful service by making all these materials so readily available. Having
them on my hard drive is BETTER than having access to a rare book library with
all of them in hand... I have found the CD set invaluable as a tool of
scholarship. So once again I commend you brothers for making it
available."

"In all seriousness,
this collection is almost impossible to describe. It has to be seen to be
believed. As a pastor, my library has just increased dramatically. As a Ph.D.
student in Puritan and Post-Reformation studies, I have immediate access to
many of the same works for which I would normally need to access through rare
book rooms of theological libraries."

- Yours for the faith,
Pastor David Owen Filson, Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church (PCA),
Nashville, TN

"These Puritan
resources are the greatest I've ever seen. These eyes have never seen anything
greater than what you have produced except that old King James Bible. I am sure
that it will help me and others grow in the Lord and I can use it in my Home
School for my children. "

- Email from a Customer in
Georgia, USA

"The SWRB CDs ...
have been an incredible source of spiritual delight and theological pleasure.
They were also an incomparable help in researching and writing my countless
M.Div. papers. My professors were always amazed at the rare book quotations and
relative obscurity of my sources. I still feel that I have barely scratched the
surface of what these books have to offer."

- Pastor Andrew Underhile, Missionary
in the Philippines

"(The) great
attainments (of the Second Reformation/Westminster Assembly) are
rejected largely because of ignorance. The best books on these subjects have
not been readily available; but (thanks be to God) they are available again on
these CD sets. For anyone interested in recovering our Presbyterian past, these
CD sets are a must.

- Dr. Steven Dilday

"Still Waters has
done our community a great service by making the English Puritan classics
available on CD. I treasure the copies on my desk and I use what I have
continually."

"I cannot express
the depth of my gratitude to you and your staff for the massive work you have
done on the Reformation... Bookshelf CD series. Your compilation -- in addition
to tripling the total size of my personal library -- has already encouraged me
greatly in the development of the habit of family worship in my home. Your
contribution to Christ's Church is of inestimable value, and I am sharing your
materials with every serious Christian I can find. My Pastor was ecstatic to
receive his copy."

- Neil Barham (USA)

"I appreciate the
work that you are doing at SWRB. The availability of old ministry on the CDs
is truly remarkable and at such good prices. I have
been blessed in my own reading and also sermon preparation help... Keep up the
good work, it is truly appreciated and I am sure people like myself are being
helped and you will never know the blessing your ministry is until you get home
to glory."

-Your Brother in Christ,
AMT, (Email for a Baptist Brother in Ontario, Canada)

"I just received the
CD's in the mail to day. I am overwhelmed! It was Dr. Richard A. Muller at
Calvin Theological Seminary who first pointed out your website for access to
documents that would otherwise be unavailable or unattainable. I am looking
forward to reading the material by Beza and Twisse!"

- Email from Richard
Chelvan, USA.

"A good man
leaveth an inheritance to his children's children…" (Prov. 13:22a)